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QGroundControl Open Source Micro Air Vehicle Ground Control Station
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Project:
http://qgroundcontrol.org

Files:
http://github.com/pixhawk/qgroundcontrol
http://github.com/pixhawk/mavlink

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Credits:
http://qgroundcontrol.org/credits
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* PLEASE NOTE: YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE MAVLINK LIBRARY IN ORDER TO COMPILE THIS APPLICATION *
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Mac OS X
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To build on Mac OS X (10.5 or later):

Install SDL
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1) Download SDL from:  <http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.14.dmg>

2) From the SDL disk image, copy the `sdl.framework` bundle to `/Library/Frameworks` directory (if you are not an admin copy to `~/Library/Framewroks`)

Install QT with Cocoa
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1) Download Qt 4.6.2 with Cocoa from `http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-mac-cocoa-opensource-4.6.2.dmg` 

2) Double click the package installer

Get the MAVLINK Library
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1) Clone the MAVLINK repository : `git clone git@github.com:pixhawk/mavlink.git`. **NOTE:** Make sure that the mavlink directory is in the same directory as groundcontrol. QGround control will look for mavlink library in ../mavlink
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Build QGroundControl
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1) From the terminal go to the `groundcontrol` directory

2) Run `qmake`

3) Run `xcodebuild -configuration Release` or open `qgroundcontrol.xcodeproj` in Xcode and build.


Linux 
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To build on Linux:
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sudo apt-get install phonon libqt4-dev \
 libphonon-dev libphonon4 phonon-backend-gstreamer \
qtcreator libsdl1.2-dev libflite1 flite1-dev build-essential
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cd directory

git clone git@github.com:pixhawk/mavlink.git
git clone git@github.com:pixhawk/qgroundcontrol.git

Ubuntu Application Menu -> Development -> Qt Creator

QtCreator Menu File -> Open File or Project..

Open directory/qgroundcontrol/qgroundcontrol.pro

Hit the green play button to compile and launch it

Done.

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Windows
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Windows XP/7:
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1) Download and install the QT SDK for Windows from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/ (Visual Studio 2008 version)
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2) Download and install Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition (free)
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3) Go to the source folder of QGroundControl with the Qt 4.7.x Command Prompt tool (from the applications menu)

4) Create the Visual Studio project by typing:

qmake -tp vc qgroundcontrol.pro

5) Now start Visual Studio and load the qgroundcontrol.vcproj file

6) Compile and edit in Visual Studio. If you need to add new files, add them to qgroundcontrol.pro and re-run "quake -tp vc qgroundcontrol.pro"
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